Hair curler



Feb. 9, 1960 s. FREEMAN 2,924,225

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HAIR CURLE'R Filed April 10, 1957 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTbR. S/HIUEL FriEEn United States Patent v p HAIR CURLER Samuel Freeman, New York, N.Y.

Application April 10, 1957, Serial No. 652,056

2 Claims. (Cl. 132-34) My invention relates to a new and improved haircurling device, of the type disclosed in US. Patent No. 2,171,332 dated Aug. 29, 1939.

Said prior hair-curler can be used only to form curls of one size.

According to this invention, I provide a simple device, which can be manufactured and assembled at low cost, whereby curls of difierent size can be made, either for home use, or use in beauty parlors. The body of the improved device has a detachable barrel so that barrels of different respective diameters can be used with the body of the device.

The invention is explained in the following description and annexed drawings.

Fig. 1 is a side elevation ofthe assembled device.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal, vertical, axial section of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal, vertical, axial section, partially in elevation, of the body of the device, showing the barrel of the device removed.

Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a section on the line 55 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 6 is a top plan view of the barrel-supporting member which rotates in unison with the barrel, and which detachably and rotatably connects the selected barrel to the body of the device.

Fig. 7 is a side elevation of the barrel.

Fig. 8 is a section on the line 8-8 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 9 is an end-view of Fig. 7 on the line 9-9.

Fig. 10 is a section on the line 1010 of Fig. 6.

Fig. 11 is a section, partially in elevation, of the body of the device.

For convenience, the device is described with reference to its position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, in which the longitudinal shank of a body 2 is horizontal.

The scope of the invention is defined in the appended claims.

The body 2 is substantially L-shaped in configuration and includes an elongated horizontal shank 2a, as best shown in Fig. 11, having a circular head 3 at one end thereof. The head 3 includes a cylindrical bore 3c which intersects an enlarged recess 3b the base or vertical planar wall of which is indicated at 3a. Shank 2a has at its opposite end a longitudinal recess 5 and a finger engaging lug 4.

A barrel support insert 6 is adapted to be rotatably mounted in bore 3c, which serves as a bearing therefor,

the barrel insert 6 including, as best shown in Fig. 6,-

a collar 10 which seats in recess 3b against wall 3a and a second outer collar 11 having a flat face portion 11a. The collar 10 is provided with a top recess in alignment with fiat face portion 11a, the recess being provided with side walls 10b and 10c which extend above the top of insert 6 in vertical parallelism.

The top of the barrel support insert 6 is provided with an open top recess 9 one end of which extends to the collar 11 in alignment with the top face 11a, the

other end of which terminates short of the opposite end of insert 6. As best shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, a manu- 2,924,225 Page! e .1 69

and secured thereto by pin 8. The recess 9 extends outwardly beyond'the end of head 3 but terminates short of the knob 7, and in this outwardly extending portion is seated the bottom end of a compression spring S. The other end of the spring S engages an indented boss on the end of an elongated clamping member 17 which extends through bore 3c, and includes apertured lugs 18a through which extends a pivot 18 pivotally mounting the clamp between the walls 10b and of recess 10a.

Extending outwardly from the collar 11 is a member 6a, of non-circular cross-section, which includes spaced parallel resilient legs 6b each of which is provided at its outer end with a laterally oflset lug 14.

A barrel'15 is provided, as best shown in Fig. 6, and includes a relatively long recess 16 which terminates in an inner wall 16a, from which extends an inner bore 15a of a cross-sectional configuration corresponding to the cross-sectional configuration of the member 6a. The inner end of the barrel 15 is provided with an integral head 20 having a planar wall 21, the head 20 being adapted to seat in the recess 3b with the outer face of the collar 11 engaging the wall 21, with the leg 6b of member 6a extending through the bore 15a and being held therein by the engagement of the projecting lugs 14 with the wall 16a.

The lugs 14 are cam-shaped to facilitate the insertion of the member 6a into the bore 1511 as well as its withdrawal therefrom.

In the use and operation of the device a lock of hair is clamped at its end to barrel 15'by clamp 17, the diameter of the selected barrel 15 determining the diameter of the curl to be imparted to the lock of hair. Rotation of the knob 7 will then, through barrel insert 6 and barrel 15, curl the lock of hair. A pin P may then be inserted with one leg PA inserted in the barrel recess 15 and the other leg PB inserted in the recess 5, as best shown in Fig. 1. The clamp 17 may now be released by compressing the spring S and the curled lock of hair slid off the barrel 15 simultaneously with the pin P so that the opposite legs PA and PB securely clamp the curl.

Obviously barrels of various sizes may be substituted to provide varying sizes of curls merely by slipping them on or off the member 6a, such action being facilitated by the compressible resilient legs 6b and their associated cam-shaped lugs 14.

I claim:

1. A hair curler comprising a body having a longitudinal shank and a cylindrical head perpendicular to said shank, said head having a recess and an aligned bore therethrough, a barrel support insert rotatably mounted in said. aligned bore, one end of said insert extending out of said bore, means on said one end for rotating said insert, the other end of said barrel support insert comprising a pair of spaced parallel resilient legs, cam lugs on the extremities of said legs, said legs and lugs extending beyond the other end of said head, a barrel having a cylindrical recess therein and a bore aligned with said recess in said barrel, said last-mentioned bore being of lesser diameter than said last-mentioned recess to form a' wall in said barrel between said bore and said recess, said resilient legs extending through said bore in said barrel and said lugs seating against said wall to retain said barrel on said other end of said barrel support insert, a clamping member pivotally mounted on said insert and extending along the exterior of said barrel, said shank having a bore therein extending in parallelism to said recess in said barrel and spaced therefrom a distance sufiicient to receive one leg of a hair clamping pin, the other leg of which is inserted in saw was ii-said 655a, an other ma bf said bar'rql spending non-circular cros-"section whereby rotation of said mean s on said rone end for-rotating-said insert correspbndin'gly rqtats 'sai'd b'a'rr'l. 7 v 2. The strubtura' of claim 1 wheiei'n a spring 'i pi df vided o'n said barrel insert for biasing said clamping ineans in clamping position.

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